How to install retail 10.5.6 on GA-P35-DS3R rev 2.0 with 8800GT (my notes)

[nefilim]

Just some notes on how I got it installed, maybe it will help somebody else, maybe I need to remember in a few months time what I did

 

BIG PROPS: to the chameleon developers, david elliot et al who has made this such a simple process. It has come a long way from installing Tiger and even installing 10.5.0 when it first came out (took me more than a week!)

 

CAVEAT: These steps assume basic UNIX familiarity. You need a working Leopard system and two harddrives to follow these steps. If you don't have a running Leopard system you can try the following:

 

i) flat image install

ii) use a real mac and put the target drive in a USB enclosure

 

both worked for me.

 

So the basic steps are:

 

1. Format the target drive with Disk Utility, choose the GUID Partition Table in the Options.

 

2. Download Chameleon and install using the instructions included in the tar ball, three simple steps (fdisk, dd, cp), taking care to specify the correct drive and partition.

 

3. Mount the retail disc/image (either by inserting the DVD or mounting the DMG - latter is faster). In the terminal:

 

cd /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/System/Installation/Packages

open osinstall.mpkg

 

This gives you the opportunity to select your installation partition and then kicks off the installation process.

 

4. Installing the needed special kexts:

 

i) on the new root partition: mkdir -p /Extra/Extensions

ii) copy the kexts included with Chameleon from chameleon/Optional Extras/ to the newly created /Extra/Extensions

iii) find (on the interwebs) and copy Disabler.kext and dsmos.kext to the newly created /Extra/Extensions

 

(make sure your dsmos.kext/Contents/Info.plist has the correct bundle setting:

<key>OSBundleRequired</key>

<string>Root</string>

this was not the case for mine!)

 

Disabler.kext is nice, it disables things like AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext etc, so you can leave those kexts in place and theoretically update with Software Update without having to run scripts in the background etc. This keeps your installation much more "vanilla".

 

5. Create the EFI string for you card, I used these easy steps. Add the generated string to /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist

 

6. Fix the permissions in /Extra:

 

chown -R root:wheel Extensions

chmod -R 755 Extensions

chown root:admin com.apple.Boot.plist

chmod 744 com.apple.Boot.plist

 

That's about it, reboot and go through the first time setup wizard. Almost everything works right off the bat including full QE/CI and onboard ethernet. Sound is not working but that can be fixed later.

 

UPDATE: the update to 10.5.7 through Software Update worked flawlessly, just like on my MacBook Pro, no need for any background scripts.

[nefilim]

Getting sound to work:

 

After updating to 10.5.7, grab the Series_LegacyHDA_1057.zip package here

 

Put the three kexts (HDAEnabler.kext and LegacyHDA*kext) in /Extra/Extensions, reboot. Still works after waking up from sleep.

 

 

Fixing jerky mouse:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=166448